Starbucks gives me apple fanboy vibes…
How much of this is a combination of Gen Z being health conscious, and getting old enough to to have to start paying for things themselves instead of having an personal expense budget like when they were in high school or university?
1/4 teaspoon ground tumeric 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon coco Thoroughly mix with ground coffee Brew in French press You’re welcome.
Donut shop style medium roast in a percolator, add 1 serving powdered Mexican hot chocolate to your cup. Mmm, yeah.
Percolators look cool, but they are horrible for brewing coffee. It pretty much necessitates burning your coffee, because it has to boil the already brewed coffee to send it back through for more rounds to keep brewing. That’s not ideal.
That’s what I hear, but I still like the taste of percolator coffee better than any other. May just be bad taste on my part.
Cardamom coffee is where it’s at!
I haven’t gone to Starbucks for a regular coffee since they changed to only serving Pike’s Place Roast (like 10+ years ago).
It should tell them something when you go to the grocery store, Starbucks is on sale, and they are out of Breakfast Blend, House Blend, and Veranda Blend, but they have full shelves of fucking Pike’s. There are several gas station brand coffees better than that swill.
They actually don’t just serve PPR, generally, every store will have Veranda (Light) and either Verona or Sumatra (Both dark) depending on the week you visit. Some stores even have decaf Pike now.
At all mine, they’ll only have the other roasts you mention for a few hours in the morning. I’m usually away from home when I want my noon, 3pm, or 7pm coffee.
Traffic to its U.S. stores fell again […] dropping 6%. Domestic same-store sales fell 2%, boosted by an increase in average ticket.
So they had less people come in, and their response was to raise prices.
Last quarter, executives discussed plans to revive the lagging U.S. business that included leaning on discounts
Ah, yes, temporarily lower prices that you’ll need to install their tracking app for, I’m sure. They’ll use it to dial in the price-point at which each customer is willing to buy, offer “discounts” to just above that price, and then boil-the-frog until it reaches a price acceptable to corporate …
I like good tea, not coffee.
So, you know, I have technically always been boycotting Starbucks I guess.
If people really want a caffeine and sugar fix I can’t wait till someone tries a chain of yerba mate places. North America is gonna be wired.
Does chai tea latte count as coffee or tea? Love those things. Also just chai tea too though. Coffee is pretty gross IMO but ive never had good coffee.
Well, anyone who wanted good coffee wasn’t going to Starbucks either.
We are laughing at your misfortune, you fucking ghouls
Honestly, it wasn’t the $7 coffee that turned me away from starbucks. It was the $7 coffee that taste like toilet water, when there are no shortage of local, cheaper coffee shops with amazing brews made by people who actually want to be there, who also won’t be fired for unionizing.
Fast food is where the pushback is beginning. Consumers NEED to push back on greed-flation for things to change, especially in areas of elastic demand. Hopefully, this trend continues and the companies react the right way (I know, that’s overly optimistic)
I get free starbucks at work. It has to be pretty good to make it worth crossing the street to the main campus.
The other day I was walking around, thinking about all the different coffee shops I could see, and wondering why people waste their money on starbucks and their burnt-ass coffee.
For the desserts-masquerading-as-coffee.
First McDonald’s falling sales. Now Starbucks falling sales. Hmm… I wonder if there’s a trend going on here.
We’re all maxed out and broke!
I want planning to go back to Starbucks but it turns out they didn’t actually sponsor the RNC convention https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/24/facebook-posts/starbucks-was-an-official-sponsor-of-the-rnc/
Now I don’t know, coffee bean and tea leaf have a nice Colombian coffee
I like some things from Starbucks, but ever since the manager tore into an autistic girl for having the gall to have boundaries while being sexually harassed, I stopped going. I even reported that POS manager to the DM. Fuck that guy. Girl did nothing wrong and got shit on for “not reporting it the right way”, “not working it out like an adult”, and “being mean”. FFS, the person she was training was the damn poster child for Sexual Harassment and she told him no, she did not want to be touched nor hit on.
I much prefer my local coffee shops, but they are all ~15 minutes away. Only one of them has a decent amount of seating with outlets. The rest are small and don’t really accommodate people who want to work for a few hours, which is the main reason I am going to a coffee shop in the first place. The only close one was that Starbucks.
I’ve seen a few of these articles and everyone is missing the bigger picture. Yes making better products will increase sales. However the main point that people don’t understand is that companies are recognizing that their prices are too high to drive sales and as such prices drop to reflect that. Meaning that inflation is shrinking. This is a huge win for Americans and I hope voters see that and vote accordingly.
